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Join us for Chapter Six, “How We React to Stress and Difficulties”, of our year-long Guest Speaker Event series: "A Life Well-Lived: Mindfulness for Life in 12 Chapters," in collaboration with Professor Willem Kuyken. In this insightful session, Willem Kuyken explores our habitual reactions to stress and challenge through concepts like the 'vicious flower' and 'two arrows of pain and suffering'. Willem discusses how our responses can be supported through practices like the breathing space, the 50/50 practice, and mindful walking. If you'd like to join the events live, they're taking place monthly between September 2024 and October 2025 and are free to access. Find out more and register Oxford Mindfulness is a not-for-profit organisation helping people achieve greater well-being and improved mental health through research-based mindfulness. Visit our website
In this episode of the Bold Goal Crusher Podcast, host Sara Mayer chats with Amy, founder and chief evolution officer of Painted Porch Strategies, about navigating and leading through change. Amy's team focuses on using stoic principles to unlock potential in leaders, learners, and teams by emphasizing emotional intelligence, communication, and collaboration. She discusses the importance of understanding individuals' reactions to change, identifying various change styles, and offers strategies for leading change effectively. Amy emphasizes the value of embracing change readiness, involving team members in the process, and the need for holistic consideration of individuals' skills beyond their roles. Additionally, Amy shares insights on preparing for and adapting to change, whether planned or unplanned, and how to approach change management and readiness in personal and professional contexts. 00:00 Welcome to the Bold Goal Crusher Podcast! 00:35 Meet Amy: The Change Catalyst 02:26 Understanding Change: The Good, The Bad, and The Necessary 03:36 Types of Change and How We React 05:13 Embracing Change: Strategies and Mindsets 06:40 Navigating Change in Teams and Organizations 16:21 Change Readiness: Preparing for the Inevitable 21:52 The Human Element: Navigating Change Together 22:05 Practical Tips for Originators and Innovators 27:00 Change Readiness and Operational Efficiency 31:25 Understanding Your Starting Point for Effective Change 33:26 How to Connect with Amy for Change Readiness 34:57 Closing Thoughts and Next Steps Connect with Amy: Painted Porch
Conflict is inevitable. People are messy. Lessons from decades of church leadership. RESOURCES 1. The Perilous Trinity Deep Dive Church of God General Conference Lawrenceville Church of God 18. Rex's Legacy / Music of Grace / The Loaf - Laura Varnadore Howdy Doody Barney & Friends (the purple dinosaur) UCA Conference UCA Facebook Group When A Word Is Worth A Thousand Complaints (and When It Isn't), Christianity Today, Dec. 21, 2020 9. The Biblical Unitarian Podcast - Dustin Smith 50. Church Plant - Will Barlow (Part 1) The Biblical Unitarian Podcast The Gospel Truth YouTube channel, Marlon Wilson Regional UCA Conferences You Can't Have Milk Without Manure - Handout (pdf file) EPISODE INDEX 00:01:10 - What Is The UCA? 00:02:58 - Interview 00:04:02 - Alan Intro 00:05:01 - Drawing The Line 00:06:14 - Lessons To Be Learned 00:07:43 - Relevance 00:10:05 - Nature of Conflict 00:12:50 - Lowered Expectations 00:15:20 - Self Esteem 00:17:10 - Howdy Doody 00:21:09 - The Dead Aren't Offended 00:22:25 - Father, Forgive 00:23:18 - How We React 00:24:40 - Not Mediating 00:25:36 - Assumptions 00:29:29 - Assume You're Not Perfect 00:30:30 - Not “You Or Them” 00:32:03 - Avoiding the Conflict 00:33:38 - Lighten Up 00:34:22 - Principal and Preference 00:35:19 - The People Who Like Conflict 00:37:41 - Leadership and Driving Away 00:39:28 - Tension Is Good 00:41:54 - Welcoming Conflict 00:44:20 - The Fan Principle 00:49:35 - Serving Outside Your Giftedness 00:51:51 - Specks And Beams 00:52:49 - Understanding our own Grace 00:55:58 - Health 00:58:31 - Next Time, Super Duper 00:59:59 - Events 01:00:38 - Mailbag 01:01:27 - Correction, CT Article 01:02:14 - Welcome 01:03:06 - Recent Debate 01:04:11 - Regional UCA Conferences FEEDBACK Share your voice or share your words. Include your first name and your state or country. Email recording to podcast@unitarianchristianalliance.org Click here to RECORD A MESSAGE Or call: 615-581-1158 LISTENING TIPS Pauses and pacing are hand crafted, artisan efforts. If your podcast app lets you remove silences, please don't. You will enjoy this better with the silences left in. ENGAGE The UCA Podcast email list! Large and enjoyable episode art, additional thoughts from the host, and notifications when there are delays. The UCA events listing. Keep up on what's coming up. Podcast twitter @UCApodcast - Episode announcements Official UCA twitter account @UnitarianChrist Podcast Webpage: https://podcast.unitarianchristianalliance.org
On this week's show, Rob and Jamie are joined by three-time Tony Award winning composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director, and performer Jason Robert Brown, best known for his shows “Songs for a New World”, “Parade”, “The Last Five Years”, “13”, “The Bridges of Madison County”, and “Honeymoon in Vegas”. Together, they discuss his musical theatre work, solo albums, concerts, monthly residency at SubCulture, Eydie Gormé, the Muppets, and what it's like making music in quarantine. This week's music: “Opening: The New World” from “Songs for a New World”, “I'm Still Hurting” from “The Last Five Years / SubCulture Concert 58”, “A Little Brains, A Little Talent” from Andrea Burns “A Deeper Shade of Red”, “Melinda”, from “How We React and How We Recover”, “I Love Betsy', from “Honeymoon In Vegas”, “The Old Red Hills of Home” from “Parade”, “Hope”, from “How We React and How We Recover”, “Friki-Friki”, from “Honeymoon In Vegas”, “One Second and a Millions Miles”, from “The Bridges of Madison County”, “Moving Too Fast” from “The Last Five Years”, “Sanctuary”, from "SubCulture Concert 58”, “Do the Work”, from “Prince of Broadway”, “Wait 'Til You See What's Next”, from “How We React and How We Recover”. DONATE: The Actor's Fund Find us on Twitter & Instagram: @fabulousinvalid Facebook: www.facebook.com/fabulousinvalid Rob's reviews: www.stageleft.nyc Email us at: info@fabulousinvalid.com Jamie Du Mont Twitter: @jamiedumont Instagram: @troutinnyc Rob Russo Twitter/Instagram: @StageLeft_NYC Jennifer Simard Twitter: @SimardJennifer Instagram: @thejennifersimard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We encounter decisions constantly. Some are simple with clear answers like "Should I do the dishes today?" but some are complex and consequential like "Should I cancel upcoming travel due to coronavirus?". The Two Disabled Dudes believe that Life is about How We React. How we think when we are faced with decisions and how we weigh out the potential consequences can have an impact on how we react. In this episode, the dudes discuss 4 simple tips to help us think about the decisions in our lives: Remove the emotion from the equation - Many tough decisions in our lives evoke abundant emotion which can often cloud our reasoning. If we can temporarily remove emotion from the situation as we are thinking about the decision, it will help us focus on the facts and make an objective decision. Ask yourself "How does this affect the outcome?" - Sean and Kyle use the example of making the decision to sit down in a wheelchair or purchase an adaptive van. They talk about the face that these decisions do not change hte goal or the purpose in life, they just change the method we use to get there. Remove finances from the situation - If we think about it, it's clear that there are things in life that are more valuable than money. Sometimes, we need to let our health, time, or relationships win out over financial considerations in our lives. In this episode, Sean suggests that we can change the way we think about a decision by removing finances from the situation. He's not saying that we need to stop thinking about finances all together but if we temporarily remove money from the situation in our mind, it can help us think more clearly about things that may matter more to us. Discuss with close friends and family - This is something our past Guest, Jeremy Cowart talked about. Our friends and family know us best, and when we are thinking about a tough decision it is valuable to talk with them about so we can solidify our thinking in our own heads, and get a third party perspective who might be able to provide sound advice. This is only a taste of the conversation. Listen to this episode and see if you can relate - and then leave a comment below with your techniques for confronting the decisions in your life.
Hear what Jason Robert Brown has to say to about his music, shows, and Hal Prince, the man he called a role model and friend. About the Guest The New York Times refers to Jason as “a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical.” Jason’s score for THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY received two Tony Awards (for Best Score and Orchestrations). HONEYMOON IN VEGAS opened on Broadway in 2015 following a triumphant production at Paper Mill Playhouse. A film version of his epochal Off-Broadway musical THE LAST FIVE YEARS was released in 2015, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan and directed by Richard LaGravenese. Other major musicals as composer and lyricist include: 13, PARADE (Drama Desk, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best New Musical, Tony Award for Original Score); and SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, a theatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, which played Off-Broadway in 1995. Future projects include a new chamber musical created with Daisy Prince and Jonathan Marc Sherman called THE CONNECTOR; an adaptation of Lilian Lee’s FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE, created with Kenneth Lin and Moisés Kaufman; and a collaboration with Billy Crystal, Amanda Green, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel on a musical of MR. SATURDAY NIGHT. For the new musical PRINCE OF BROADWAY, a celebration of the career of Harold Prince, Jason was the musical supervisor and arranger. Other New York credits as conductor and arranger include URBAN COWBOY the MUSICAL on Broadway; DINAH WAS, off-Broadway and on national tour; WHEN PIGS FLY off-Broadway; William Finn’s A NEW BRAIN at Lincoln Center Theater; the 1992 tribute to Stephen Sondheim at Carnegie Hall (recorded by RCA Victor); Yoko Ono’s NEW YORK ROCK at the WPA Theatre; and Michael John LaChiusa’s THE PETRIFIED PRINCE at the Public Theatre. Jason orchestrated Andrew Lippa’s JOHN AND JEN, Off-Broadway at Lamb’s Theatre. Additionally, Jason served as the orchestrator and arranger of Charles Strouse and Lee Adams’s score for a proposed musical of STAR WARS. As a soloist or with his band The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, Jason has performed concerts around the world. For the past four years (and ongoing), his monthly sold-out performances at New York’s SubCulture have featured many of the music and theater world’s most extraordinary performers. His newest collection, “How We React and How We Recover”, was released in June 2018 on Ghostlight Records. Connect with RDU on Stage Facebook – @rduonstage Twitter – @rduonstage Instagram – @rduonstage Web http://www.rduonstage.com/ (www.rduonstage.com) Support this podcast
Deborah Sharn spoke with Tony Award winning composer, lyricist, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer Jason Robert Brown about his career and his upcoming show, “How We React and How We Recover” that will play at The Grandel Theatre in St. Louis March 15, 2019.
The Tony-winning composer and lyricist opens up about his creative process and his newest solo album, How We React and How We Recover. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Acclaimed composer and three time Tony winner Jason Robert Brown is here with us today! He will be talking about his monthly residency at Subculture and the official CD release of his album, How We React and How We Recover. Brown is known for composing popular Broadway shows like 13, The Bridges of Madison County, Kiss of the Spider Woman and most recently, Prince of Broadway. His song cycle, Songs for A New World was also featured at Encores! Off-Center this summer and will be preserved on a cast album. Be sure to follow him on social media at @MrJasonRBrown.Hosted by Paul Wontorek, Beth Stevens and Caitlin Moynihan.
Ilana interviewed JASON ROBERT BROWN live on the stage of City Center after the Encore Series Presentation of his song cycle "Songs for a New World" on the day his latest album "How We React and How We Recover" was released. In this intimate conversation Jason talks about being "adopted " by Hal Prince, his longtime collaboration with Daisy Prince, the joy and pain of winning Tony Awards for shows that had closed quickly and how he wrote the title song for his new album on the morning Donald Trump won the election and more.... Jason Robert Brown is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – an equally skilled composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer – best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of his generation, including the generation-defining “The Last Five Years”, his debut song cycle “Songs for a New World”, and the seminal “Parade”, for which he won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Score. JASON ROBERT BROWN has been hailed as “one of Broadway’s smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim” (Philadelphia Inquirer), and his “extraordinary, jubilant theater music” (Chicago Tribune) has been heard all over the world, whether in one of the hundreds of productions of his musicals every year or in his own incendiary live performances. Jason’s score for “The Bridges of Madison County,” a musical adapted with Marsha Norman from the bestselling novel, directed by Bartlett Sher and starring Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale, received two Tony Awards (for Best Score and Orchestrations). “Honeymoon In Vegas,” based on Andrew Bergman’s film, opened on Broadway in 2015 following a triumphant production at Paper Mill Playhouse. His major musicals as composer and lyricist include: “13”, written with Robert Horn and Dan Elish, which began its life in Los Angeles in 2007 and opened on Broadway in 2008; “The Last Five Years”, which was cited as one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best of 2001 and won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics; “Parade,” written with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold Prince, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in 1998, and subsequently won both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best New Musical, as well as garnering Jason the Tony Award for Original Score; and “Songs for a New World,” a theatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, which played Off-Broadway in 1995, and has since been seen in hundreds of productions around the world. As a soloist or with his band The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, Jason has performed sold-out concerts around the world. His newest collection, “How We React and How We Recover”, was released in June 2018 on Ghostlight Records. His previous solo album, “Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes”, was named one of Amazon.com’s best of 2005, and is available from Sh-K-Boom Records. For the new musical “Prince of Broadway,” a celebration of the career of Harold Prince, Jason was the musical supervisor and arranger. Other recent New York credits as conductor and arranger include “Urban Cowboy the Musical” on Broadway; Oliver Goldstick’s play, “Dinah Was,” directed by David Petrarca, at the Gramercy Theatre and on national tour; and William Finn’s “A New Brain,” directed by Graciela Daniele, at Lincoln Center Theater. Jason has conducted and created arrangements and orchestrations for Liza Minnelli, John Pizzarelli, Tovah Feldshuh, and Laurie Beechman, among many others. Jason studied composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., with Samuel Adler, Christopher Rouse, and Joseph Schwantner. He lives with his wife, composer Georgia Stitt, and their daughters in New York City. Jason is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the American Federation of Musicians Local 802. Visit him on the web at www.jasonrobertbrown.com.